Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color: 299 pges, appendix, biblio,
endnotes, index: LeBoudin Publishing:
http://www.cafeshops.com/leboudin.8596808, $24.00
Yep,
With the labor of slaves, and the land of Indians. I wonder how many people
know that Africans raised cotton, prior to slavery? Native Americans also
raised cotton and were expert weavers. They did not do it for profit, but
for their own use.
Anita Wills
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>To suggest that Britatin had to import cloth on account of having no cotton
>plantations is to put the cart before the horse. The British colonies and
>the US South produced the cotton itself, and exported the raw material to
>Britain for manufacture into cotton cloth -- as far as the colonies were
>concerned, the essence of the colonial system was that raw materials had to
>be exported to, and the manufactured goods imported from, the imperial
>master; and for long after the independence of the American states, Britain
>remained the prime manufacturer of cotton goods.
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>John Weiss
>Independent scholar, London
>Black American freedom fighters of the War of 1812:
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>From: "Anita Wills" <[log in to unmask]>
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>
>: England did not have large cotton plantations, and would have had to
>import their cloth. What English goods are referred to here? The tea came
>from India, and the coffee from South America, and Africa. My understanding
>is that the most prized tobbacco came from Virginia. The cloth came from
>one
>of Englands Colonies. I ask this question because many of the things we
>value as European, such as clothing, Swiss Chocolate, are actually
>dependent
>on imports to manufacture.
>:
>: Anita Wills
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